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Saturday, February 10, 2018

Snow Day Valentine's

Happy Valentine's Day!

Susanna Hill is hosting her third annual Valentiny contest where she forces us to write complete stories in 214 words or less. She's tough, but these contests are great ways to get your inspiration flowing and see what your mind can do with constraints. In this year's contest, someone must be hopeful. You can read all the great entries here. Entries can be posted through 2/14.

In my 146 word story, Joey must try every superstition to get a snow day or risk being Katie's Valentine.

Fun story. I learned a few new tricks for encouraging snow - though not sure how well they work. :-) Lauri, maybe you should think of expanding to a PB after the contest. It would be fun to know what happened at school.

This is great--my little household has two teachers and two middleschoolers, all of whom would gladly take a snow day (plus one kid is a boy who most likely will never willingly make a Valentine! ). Definitely connected with this story!

This made me LOL!Put a dime in theWindow for Jack Frost.What if she hugs me?Add a few quarters.

Boy! Joey sure tried every trick in the book! I guess he and Katie were just destined to be Valentines :) Love all the snow day superstitions - some I hadn't even heard of before! Good lesson not to forget the all important snow dance :) Thanks for a fun entry and for joining in the contest fun, Lauri!